The X Record — 2026¶
These are Kevin Bass's own public posts on X, presented as primary-source context for the speech at issue in this case — not as legal conclusions about any party. Text and like-counts were retrieved from X's public syndication service on 2026-08-05, or — where marked (from archive export) — from the author's own X data archive (exported 2026-08-05). The full text of long posts was retrieved from api.fxtwitter.com on 2026-10-09. Each entry links to the live post. Posts marked unavailable could not be retrieved and are shown from archived screenshots where available.
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2026-01-05 — 141¶
I just finished my first pass review of my educational record at Texas Tech.
It was far worse than I could have possibly imagined. Far worse than my wildest, most clownish imaginings.
I had to take a break to howl in disbelief in black laughter on the phone with my mom, or else I would’ve died.
My brothers in Christ, mankind is depraved.
2026-01-07 — 302¶
I have spent the past two days at the med school at Texas Tech reviewing records. It's worse than my worst suspicions. I am looking for a lawyer who might be interested in looking at my dismissal case and potentially taking it on a contingency. Please forward. Urgent.
2026-01-08 — 63¶
For my records review at Texas Tech, there are more than 1,500 documents, many long email chains and some more than ten pages long.
They are all in pdf form, so copies could be sent to me in 5 minutes.
Instead I’m forced to spend thousands of dollars hiring a neutral observer and spend days on campus reviewing them, generally avoiding other people out of consideration for not involving them in what everyone knows is an institutional and now legal conflict.
Furthermore, it is impossible to review and excerpt everything that is important for later review in the short time I am given. It is simply too much.
And even if I were made of time and money—I have other things I want to do, like work on my company—I end up looking unreasonable by asking for more time for more reviews.
It is in fact unreasonable to not just send me copies of things that happened and were written about me. I could automate much of the review process. And they know this quite well.
It is difficult for me to avoid the conclusion that the purpose of this is to add as much friction as possible in reconstructing what happened.
Texas Tech is a taxpayer-funded institution. It has a duty to the public. Its goal should not be power or leverage. Its goal should be the plain, transparent truth and service to the public. Is the institution pursuing this goal?
2026-01-22 — 601¶
I have filed two lawsuits against Texas Tech's medical school.
I allege First Amendment Retaliation, due process violations, and other violations of my constitutional rights.
Today, Texas Tech filed a motion to dismiss my suit.
I must survive this motion to move to discovery.
I will be filing my response in the coming weeks.
I recently reviewed TTU's internal emails, which show, I believe, a textbook retaliation case.
Legally, one of the cores of my federal suit is First Amendment Retaliation for my online speech about COVID-19.
But if we start and end there, we do not acknowledge what is most important here:
Do America's institutions serve the public interest, or do they serve the institutions' interests at the expense of the public?
Can science and American present giant institutional bureaucracies peacefully coexist?
Or have these bureaucracies eaten science at the expense of the interests of the American public?
Can our institutions tolerate the kinds of ambiguity and disagreement required for change, progress, and the common good?
Or do they suppress and destroy truths that they find threatening to themselves, but which are important for our societies to thrive?
My case involves the First Amendment but goes beyond it:
Are those who lead this America's institutions serving the American public, or are they serving themselves?
What happened to me is not an isolated case.
It is systemic.
It goes to the heart of the West's present crises, and to the heart of why the COVID-19 pandemic response harmed so many people, and so much more.
I will have more to communicate soon.
2026-02-03 — 315¶
For the past month, I have been flabbergasted. At a complete loss.
In this post, I provide recently obtained evidence that in 2023 and 2024, the administration at Texas Tech's medical school knowingly violated federal law and the United States Constitution in ending my medical career. They did this in retaliation for my constitutionally protected, true speech.
This was not just a rogue administrator. The evidence that I present below suggests collusion involving clinical preceptors, clerkship directors, senior administrators, and even the Board of Regents--appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
From what the documents suggest, the coordination mechanism appears to have been between the senior administration at the medical school and Texas Tech's legal department.
The documents show that the administrators wanted me out. Texas Tech's lawyers, it now appears, helped them break the law.
They smeared me with fabricated evaluations. They systematically circumvented due process. They laid a documentary trail that was impossible for me to defend against and would ensure my permanent destruction.
They made it impossible to contest their outrageously false accusations.
While they were smearing me internally, there is evidence that the school administrators were leaking confidential information to students, residents, and other staff, who in turn leaked these smears externally, a violation of federal law. Individuals who received this information used it to conduct coordinated harassment campaigns against me. I will document the rest separately.
Hundreds of medical professionals piled on, spreading these smears on Reddit.
At Texas Tech, it was not enough to fabricate allegations to achieve my expulsion. The goal, it appears, was public reputational destruction.
As shocking as this is–it is so insane that I would not have believed it if it hadn’t happened to me–this is not the reason I am posting.
It gets a lot worse.
But before I tell you the rest, the documents. They will blow your mind.
An introduction. All senior leadership at both the School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences were involved. Two Deans. Four Associate/Assistant Deans. The communications office. Multiple faculty.
Steven Berk, MD, Dean, School of Medicine (2006-2023) John DeToledo, MD, Interim Dean, School of Medicine (May 2023-Feb 2024) Simon Williams, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Lauren Cobbs, MD, MEd, Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Brandt Schneider, PhD Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
David Trotter, PhD, Associate Dean for Student Affairs Rachel Forbes, MBA, Assistant Vice Dean for Student Affairs, Covenant Branch
Elisabeth Conser, MD, Associate Dean for Student Wellness and Advancement Jennifer Wilson, MD, Vice Dean, Covenant Branch Noelle Zavala, MD, OB/GYN Faculty Megan Brown, MD, OB/GYN Clerkship Director Shaughn Nunez, MD, Associate Clerkship Director
Cheryl Erwin, PhD, Director, Center for Ethics, Humanities & Spirituality
Kelly Podzemny, Assistant Director of Social Media & Digital Storytelling
NEWSWEEK ARTICLE PUBLISHED - THE TRIGGER Date: January 30, 2023 Title: "It's Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COVID and It Cost Lives" Author: Kevin Bass Published: Newsweek (Opinion) URL: https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-scientific-community-admit-we-were-wrong-about-coivd-it-cost-lives-opinion-1776630
ARTICLE SUMMARY: I published an opinion piece in Newsweek calling for the scientific and medical community to acknowledge mistakes made during the COVID-19 pandemic response. The article argued that public health messaging and policies had eroded trust, especially in the COVID-19 vaccine, and that an honest reckoning was needed to make public health effective again.
RECEPTION: - Article went viral: 7.5+ million views - Generated significant backlash on social media ("MedTwitter")
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Date: February 1, 2023 From: Kelly Podzemny To: Brandt Schneider CC: Ashley Hamm, Steven Berk, Mikel Coale, Susanna Cisneros
Good morning Dr. Schneider, I wanted to give you and Dr. Beck a heads up about an MD/PhD student who is getting some backlash on Twitter about an opinion piece he had published on the Newsweek website. These people believe it is misinformation. He's been outspoken on other topics in the past, and we were told it was free speech. Dr. Beck says he may talk to legal about this again.
MY NOTE: This was the first documented institutional response to the Newsweek article. They had already determined my prior speech was "free speech." Now they were going to legal "again."
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Date: February 1, 2023 From: Simon Williams To: Steven Berk, Lauren Cobbs
It is obviously protected speech but also quite concerning in the way he appears to speak for the medical community. We need to discuss an appropriate response.
MY NOTE: Williams called it "obviously protected speech" - then said they needed to discuss "an appropriate response" anyway. Per recollection, Williams also expressed concern that the article was being shared in "antivax" circles.
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Date: February 1, 2023 From: Steven Berk To: Kelly Podzemny CC: Ashley Hamm, Mikel Coale, Susanna Cisneros, Vadivel Ganapathy
We had problems with him on Twitter before as you remember calling various diet doctors phonies but we got into the same free speech issues that with we did admonish him. I think we should discuss with legal.
MY NOTE: Berk admitted they had "the same free speech issues" before. Now he wanted to "discuss with legal" again.
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Date: February 1, 2023 From: Michael Blanton To: Lauren Cobbs, Simon Williams Subject: Student Publication COVID-19
Forwarded complaint from Kip Hopper about Newsweek article.
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Date: February 2, 2023, 10:22 AM (Schneider) / 10:27 AM (alternate timestamp) From: Brandt Schneider To: Kelly Podzemny Subject: RE: Twitter: Kevin Bass
Kelly,
Thanks for the update. We are aware of the incident. I texted with Dr. Williams about it yesterday and will circle back with him again today to determine how best to proceed. I will also follow up with Dr. Berk.
Brandt
MY NOTE: The Graduate School Dean was coordinating with the medical school. They were figuring out "how best to proceed."
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Date: February 2, 2023, 2:50 PM From: Simon Williams To: Didn't record
I am not surprised that there was backlash. I think it will be best to hear what legal says we should do.
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Date: February 15, 2023, 12:42 PM From: Steven Berk To: Simon Williams
Wrt Kevin Bass what does it mean to recommend @ eugenics in 2023 might meet about him at 3pm
MY NOTE: The Dean was monitoring my specific tweets and proposing same-day meetings about them. I was talking about eugenics in the same way Dr. Williams had discussed it in lectures, and in the same way discussed in the medical ethics literature.
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Date: April 20, 2023, 8:23 AM From: Pamela Johnson To: Terri Lloyd Subject: URGENT - INFO NEEDED
Can you confirm the dates of his (Kevin Bass) enrollment in the GSBS (MS and MD degrees) and provide the approximate timeframes that he conducted his research in various faculty labs (under Drs. Grisham, Reynolds, Ganapathy or others) during this time. Do you have this information?
MY NOTE: Six days before Morales forwarded the complaints, someone was urgently gathering my enrollment history and lab assignments. They were building a dossier.
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Date: April 26, 2023, 11:16 AM From: Felix Morales To: Lauren Cobbs, Simon Williams, Elisabeth Conser, David Trotter, Allison Perrin Subject: Emails About a Student Starting the 3rd Year
Good morning everyone, I wanted to forward some emails that we have been receiving about a student that is returning back to the medical school curriculum from his PhD coursework. His name is Kevin Bass. We have received emails in our admissions inbox expressing concerns about his social media posts. I didn't know what to do with them, but I wanted to share them with you all. Let me know if you have any questions.
MY NOTE: The admissions office was receiving external complaints about my speech and forwarding them to five senior administrators.
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Date: April 26, 2023, 11:29 AM From: David Trotter To: Felix Morales, Lauren Cobbs, Simon Williams, Elisabeth Conser, Allison Perrin Subject: RE: Emails About a Student Starting the 3rd Year
Thanks for sending these. If you get any more please forward them on. I will help collect some more information and get back to you to discuss how to respond.
[Response to April 26, 2023 11:16 AM email from Felix Morales forwarding emails expressing concerns about my social media posts]
MY NOTE: Five senior administrators on this email. Trotter is asking for more materials and coordinating "how to respond."
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Date: May 22, 2023, 1:29 PM (original) / 3:51 PM (forward) From: [Redacted] To: Ja'Net Sneed Date: May 22, 2023, 1:29 PM Subject: TTUHSC on MedTwitter
Hey Ja'Net, I just wanted to send an email on behalf of some of my classmates. I am sure the school admin is following the situation on social media. But in case it is not being followed, Kevin Bass and Class of 2025 has been making controversies in the realm of MedTwitter. At first it was not really a big deal but recently he has tweeted about how easy 3rd year med school is and made controversial statements that seem to go against the school's code of conduct. In fact some residents at residency programs have been responding to the tweets and questioning the quality of medical education TTUHSC is providing to students. Unfortunately he has a following of about 84,000 people and some of my tweets have caught the attention of residency programs' faculty members. He has been in news segments, podcasts, and interviews. With Step 1 going P/F and the attention shifting to Step 2 and school prestige some people are becoming concerned that this one person is essentially putting our school under the radar in a bad way. -Joe
PART B - FORWARD TO DEAN: From: Lauren Cobbs To: Steven Berk, Simon Williams Date: May 22, 2023, 3:51 PM
Need to discuss...
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Date: May 23, 2023, 8:58 AM From: Steven Berk To: Simon Williams, Lauren Cobbs, Islam
At our meeting can we discuss Kevin Bass and review our guidelines on professionalism also what clerkship he is on
MY NOTE: Cobbs forwarded this student complaint directly to Dean Berk. The next morning, Berk asked "what clerkship is he on."
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Date: May 23, 2023, 12:22 PM From: Acevedo To: Lauren Cobbs Priority: IMPORTANCE: HIGH Subject: Honor Code
Here is the signed Honor Code for Kevin Bass
MY NOTE: 3.5 hours after Berk's meeting request, the Honor Code was pulled and marked "IMPORTANCE: HIGH."
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Date: May 23, 2023 (after 12:22 PM) From: Lauren Cobbs To: Steven Berk, Pomasson Priority: IMPORTANCE: HIGH Subject: Signed Honor Code for K. Bass
Dr. Berk - PDF version of signed Honor Code for Kevin Bass
MY NOTE: The sequence on May 23, 2023: - 8:58 AM: Berk asks "what clerkship is he on" - Morning: Cobbs requests Honor Code from records - 12:22 PM: Acevedo provides Honor Code (IMPORTANCE: HIGH) - Afternoon: Cobbs forwards Honor Code to Berk They were assembling a disciplinary file.
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Date: May 27, 2023 Dean Steven Berk died 4 days after placing me on the meeting agenda and receiving my Honor Code file.
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Date: May 31, 2023 Present: Dr. Megan Brown, Dr. Noelle Zavala, Kevin Bass
MY NOTE: 8 days after Berk asked "what clerkship is he on," professionalism concerns materialized at that exact clerkship.
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I then faced the first flood of professionalism “complaints”.
I began reaching out to lawyers:
Date: July 24, 2023 From: Kevin Bass To: Tim Weitz, JD
There are many discrepancies and facts that do not fit or make sense, and I don't understand what is happening. …
Due process has been systematically ignored and they refuse to specify the professionalism incident(s) in my letter. That's right, I'm being censured for a professionalism incident that hasn't been specified, not even to me. …
I believe that they may be trying to build a case for my eventual dismissal.
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Then, from August 2 to August 7, I contacted at least 10 attorneys with the same language expressing confusion about the process and the refusal to specify charges.
Standard language included in all outreach:
“I believe that the administration may be trying to build a case for my eventual dismissal. There are many discrepancies and facts that do not fit or make sense, and I don't understand what is happening. … Due process has been ignored and they refuse to specify the professionalism incident(s) in my letter, or at any other point in the process.”
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ERWIN'S COACHING NOTES: THE PRETEXT REVEALED
Then, after two extraordinarily stressful professionalism board meetings, and despite winning the appeal on "lack of specificity," I was still required to complete "professionalism coaching" with Dr. Cheryl Erwin, for reasons nobody would explain to me.
The coaching was assigned for clinical behavior during OB/GYN - "comments to nurses," "interactions with staff." It had nothing to do with my Newsweek article. Yet, strikingly, Erwin’s notes tell a different story.
She researched COVID vaccine sources to evaluate my opinions. She acted sympathetic to my face while writing this behind my back. And the final irony: my Newsweek article was pro-vaccine. I called for acknowledging mistakes in pandemic messaging and in the response, which led to reduced trust and reduced vaccine uptake. I did not express opposition to vaccines; I was pro-vaccine. She was building a case against a position I never held.
DATE: After August 8, 2023
ERWIN'S NOTES (excerpt):
I also spoke with Dr. Cobbs about this student and the issues presented. She agreed that there are concurrent legal issues embodied in the case including the right of Kevin to say anything that he wished to say (free speech). Even if the ideas he has shared with us seem contrary to generally accepted opinion regarding the science (my source is Cochrane’s review on the efficacy of COVID vaccines), it is not a dispute that he has a right to say whatever he wishes.
However, as a matter of professionalism he does not have a right to disrupt the learning environment, he does not have a right to refuse, without consequences, the feedback he is given and fail to adopt the virtues of medical professionalism which include attitudes of compassion, adaptability, and sensitivity to the needs of others. These obligations are expected by the LCME as professional activities which we have an obligation to ensure in order to maintain our accreditation as a medical school. My focus and the main conclusive issue here is to develop insight into why he is doing this when he admits that a lot of people have 'just quit talking to him.'
MY NOTE: The professionalism coach–assigned to address supposed clinical behavior issues–explicitly tied her assessment to COVID vaccine opinions (that I didn’t hold) and invoked LCME accreditation. Her own words reveal the pretext: if this were about pre-existing behavior, people wouldn't have "just quit talking to him." Something new caused this–and she told us what it was.
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In another note, she went even further, comparing me to Trump and saying I had absorbed "conspiracy culture":
Erwin's second note (excerpt):
"I do not feel confident I can coach this student on the SPCC issues without addressing the issues raised by the student that lie beyond the formal referral. The social media issues came up. They cannot be ignored. They raise issues of constitutional free speech, due process, and reputational harm that imply the need for additional advice from the referring source and their counsel.
Because these issues are a part of our general culture at this moment in time it is appropriate to note K will have heard in recent days: Special Counsel Jack Smith points out in the Trump indictment, 'The defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely... he was also entitled to formally challenge the results of...'
KB has imbibed the cultural atmosphere of conspiracy theories. This is reflected in his combative attitude towards me and everyone who is trying to help him, as well as towards the CDC response to COVID as a conspiracy. In the present he seems to be taking his First Amendment rights to make an idiot of himself"
MY NOTE: My "professionalism coach" compared me to Trump, said I had absorbed "conspiracy culture," and wrote that I was using my First Amendment rights "to make an idiot of himself." She claimed that I thought that "COVID was a conspiracy" (whatever that means). This was the person assigned to help me.
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But to my face? A completely different story:
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023 - After I apologized for being irritable while sick:
"Thank you Kevin. And thank you for making our meeting. You were lovely. See you next time."
OCTOBER 17, 2023 - Scheduling a meeting: "Your call, either way I just want you to feel supported."
OCTOBER 19, 2023 - When I was in distress: "Just breathe!! You're gonna be fine. I will continue to coach you through this."
OCTOBER 19, 2023 - Same day, later: "Do you need to talk? I'm here"
OCTOBER 29, 2023 - When I shared personal trauma with her, in order to make the point that what I was going through was the worst thing I had ever experienced:
"Kevin, I am crying as I read this. For the pain you have been through. For the joy of your survival. For the dreams and goals you still hold. I can walk alongside you and I can be your friend. I can listen to you as you find your authentic self. But I would never want to change who you are and I couldn't even if I wanted to.
I am not sure there is continued value in a coaching relationship, but I will not abandon you. You have work to do my friend, and it is the work of healing.
Your friend, Dr. Erwin"
But it doesn't stop at the medical school.
In February 2023, Berk and Williams consulted the Office of General Counsel about my "obviously protected speech." Six months later, that same Office of General Counsel recommended "immediate updates" to the Board of Regents—citing "recent litigation trends" in harassment and speech policies.
The Board approved the changes on August 10-11, 2023. They added language requiring speech to "lose legal protection" before it can justify suspension. They removed a team that had been monitoring student "expressive activities."
Then in November 2023—two weeks after my suspension—the Board required that General Counsel "certify compliance with applicable laws" before any future policy changes.
They added a legal certification requirement after they suspended me.
The same lawyers who reviewed my case recommended the policy changes. The Board of Regents—appointed by Governor Greg Abbott—approved them.
This was institutional.
This is the tip of the iceberg.
I have sent more than a dozen Texas Public Information Act (TPIA) requests–basically, FOIA for Texas–for the documents that will reveal what really happened.
Texas Tech has responded by delaying their responses to the final deadlines; by double charging me for deposits; and by forcing me into a legal battle.
More than 70 pages of legal argument have been submitted by each side to the Texas Office of the Attorney General, more than 150 pages, a book’s worth for TPIA alone. Texas Tech seeks to withhold ALL documents.
What are they hiding?
Since October, I have also engaged in a lengthy dispute with Texas Tech–through FERPA–to gain access to all of my educational records, which I am entitled to according to federal law.
Texas Tech is required to provide me with these records within 45 days.
It has been 120 days, and I still have not had the opportunity to review the documents.
How long will it take? A year? To get documents I should have had in November?
They have provided me with a single set of sessions over the course of a week to review them. Thousands of pages. They have all of these documents in PDF format. They could send me these PDFs at any time.
Instead, they keep creating more friction, requiring me to visit each time. The atmosphere is tense. To avoid any misunderstanding, I spent $3,600 for a private investigator to accompany me just to review them. Because who knows what else Texas Tech will make up about me?
This is all intentional. And it violates federal law.
Therefore, I will continue to file complaints with the Department of Education.
And over the coming weeks, I will file still more complaints with still more agencies.
And once I started filing these requests, what happened? Out of the blue–debt collection for semesters at the medical school they did not allow me to attend.
There is no low to which this university will not stoop.
Thankfully, after posting about this, these attempts seem to have stopped. For now.
They destroyed my career. They destroyed my reputation. And they want me to shut up about it.
I won’t.
I have filed two lawsuits against Texas Tech and just some of the employees involved in these acts. One in state court. The other in federal.
And that brings me to the reason I am posting this.
They have filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
And they also delayed my next FERPA review session. Again.
Curious.
To when? They have delayed the session to the final two days in which my response to the motion to dismiss is due.
My guess: they’re hoping that I don’t have the time to consolidate the insights from the next review of documents.
But who is doing that? Ah, yes.
I am posting because one of the employees at the Texas Office of the Attorney General--run by Ken Paxton--is not just representing Texas Tech but now, it appears, helping Texas Tech to obstruct justice. By moving this review to just before the response is due.
By implication, this means that the Attorney General is now spending yet more taxpayer money to cover for a university that retaliated against the First Amendment.
Retaliation. Against the First Amendment. With your taxpayer money.
But not just the First Amendment. I am a scientist. I have a PhD. When I wrote about the pandemic, I did so in good faith. And my views are the same as those of NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, FDA CBER Director Vinay Prasad, and indeed, the official position of the Trump administration itself.
Texas Tech retaliated against a legitimate scientific viewpoint–the viewpoint which I believe is undeniably correct. All because it was unpopular and out of step with the politics of the university.
All I want is to move on. But that means acknowledging what happened.
I have recently received the first ruling from the Attorney General on one of my TPIA requests. 16 pages of redactions. Huge blocks of black. Citing attorney-client privilege.
This is completely unacceptable. And insane.
Let’s square that with what happened here.
Texas Tech used their Director of Ethics to subvert ethics.
They used professionalism hearings to behave unprofessionally.
And they used their legal team to break the law.
It’s Orwellian. Texas Tech inverted morality.
And now, they are trying to use attorney-client privilege as a shield–with Texas’s Attorney General to defend them.
I am writing here to appeal to you, reader, for one thing.
Pressure.
I’m asking for the documents. Nothing fancy. I’m only asking for the truth.
This is a pressure campaign for the truth. Is that so much to ask for?
Quote-post this. Tag Ken Paxton. Tag Lori Rice-Spearman. Tag Greg Abbott.
Here are the handles you can tag:
@KenPaxtonTX @RiceSpearman @GregAbbott_TX
Ask them why their taxpayer-funded government agency is trying to conceal the truth. Why they tried to destroy one of their students’ lives and won’t let him go.
I just want to move on. I don’t want back into medicine. Because of the ideologically captured bureaucrats, medicine no longer has moral standards. I want to create something of my own–something I can believe in as I once believed in medicine.
Let me go.
I finish with this passage from the Bible:
I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals
I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:21-24
2026-02-03 — 21¶
Unfortunately, for the bureaucracy at Texas Tech, my article was an "incident".
Not an opinion that was true or false. An "incident".
Is that how scientific views are treated at Texas universities @GregAbbott_TX @KenPaxtonTX?
They are treated as "incidents" to be "managed"? https://t.co/8wdIdlRkzd
2026-02-04 — 34¶
Erwin was cited as a key witness during my dismissal hearing.
In private, she was comparing me to Trump questioning the election results, characterizing my views as "CDC response to COVID was a conspiracy", and more.
To my face, she endlessly insisted on her personal support. She was so nice. I legitimately thought she was on my side, because she insisted that she did.
She was not.
Joke's on me.
Meanwhile, nobody engaged me with the substance of my views. Nobody until nearly the end told me I was being monitored for the entire year. Nobody showed the least bit of curiosity how someone who had spent a decade debunking misinformation online could come to the conclusion that the government had spread a lot of misinformation about COVID.
This was all despite the fact that other prominent scientists, today running top agencies at HHS, had the same views.
Yet her final evaluation of me was that I was motivated to my views by resentment from childhood trauma.
You really can't freaking make this shit up.
2026-02-12 — 28¶
Filing my response to motion to dismiss today.
It's loaded with things like this.
You can just take screenshots at random and you will find crazy things almost every paragraph.
Like, did you know at Texas Tech I had a Stasi-like file on my social media posts?
Actually, several.
And if I'm honest, you know the motion to dismiss I'm responding to?
Let's just say it's something else.
I've been quiet.
But more on that soon.
More on a lot.
2026-02-15 — 24¶
I have filed my Third Amended Complaint and my Response to Motion to Dismiss.
In my latest filings, I cite 25 hours of secret recordings that I have revealed for the first time.
You can talk about it with AI. Try the following prompt:
Kevin Bass recently filed a new amended complaint and a response to motion to dismiss. They're not yet up on the public docket. Here are the files he submitted, along with the motion to dismiss to which he is responding.
In plain English, summarize the case. Then, rate its strength on a scale of 1-10. If what Kevin claims is true, could Texas Tech be in real trouble? What happened leading up to Kevin's first hearing and appeal? If Kevin is telling the truth about that, does what happened at that stage seem unusual? What sorts of things did Kevin's professors say about him privately? Does Kevin provide compelling evidence that some of the concerns expressed about him might have been fabricated or pretextual? What do Kevin's secret recordings appear to reveal? How damaging is the evidence that Kevin used quoting the officials' own words? If Kevin gets to discovery, what is he likely to find?
Analyze these filings to answer these questions: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinnbass/Texas-Tech-lawsuit-documents/main/FAC_Original.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinnbass/Texas-Tech-lawsuit-documents/main/TAC.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinnbass/Texas-Tech-lawsuit-documents/main/R2MTD_With_Appendix.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinnbass/Texas-Tech-lawsuit-documents/main/Doc27_Complete_Confidential.txt
2026-02-26¶
I have sent dozens of FOIAs to Texas Tech to get records about my medical school dismissal since October. Instead of providing the records, Texas tech has filed hundreds of pages of briefs with the Texas Attorney General requesting to withhold the documents.
If I was dismissed
2026-02-26 — 952¶
I have sent dozens of FOIAs to Texas Tech to get records about my medical school dismissal since October. Instead of providing the records, Texas tech has filed hundreds of pages of briefs to the Texas Attorney General requesting to withhold the documents.
If I was dismissed from medical school for the reasons they claim, why won't they just provide the records? The records should confirm the official story, and we'd be done. I'd just be embarrassed and slink away in shame, and that'd be it.
One thing I know from the records I have been able to obtain is that they are explosive. So I want more. And as a resident in the state of Texas, I have that right. Texas taxpayers, at a taxpayer-funded institution, also have the right to know what is happening at Texas Tech, how the school is run, and whether it retaliated against a student for their (true) speech about how the COVID response was mishandled.
Something I haven't talked about is that I was open to working with the administration when all of this was going on. That is shown in many documents and recordings. The only conclusion that I can draw is that it was not enough that I should be silenced: Texas Tech decided to make an example out of me.
But I say: the facts should speak for themselves. They should be public. Not the official documents. The internal ones. The Texas taxpayer has the right to see how the sausage is really made. That's Texas law.
2026-03-01 — 251¶
Texas Tech administrators have said that part of the reason things escalated is that they became public because of me. But this isn't true. I maintained strict public silence while everything unfolded because that was professional. The administrators were the ones who leaked smears to influencers and what can only be described as professional cyberstalkers. Now I am forced into a public legal battle over what happened to set the record straight.
I don't want to go back to medical school. Any institution that could treat a person the way Texas Tech and the broader medical and public health communities treated me is not one I want to be a part of. But what actually happened must be made public now. And that is not my fault. That is Texas Tech's fault. They did things that if not cleared up could impact me for the rest of my life, and all because they hated my (true) speech on Twitter.
And it's worse than that. Everything I have seen internally suggests that the administrators were moved to act by complaints by low-level physicians and members of the public who had no scientific training and a very low level of understanding. I have seen administrators cite very poorly written, unscientific blogs on which they based their opinions. On the contrary, my private conversations with top public health officials, including those who led the pandemic response in major states like California and New York, indicated that there was broad if not overwhelming consensus that what I was writing online was factually correct. This demonstrates an lack of discernment and judgment by administrators at Texas Tech about what was actually important and what "professionalism" means. Even if we set constitutional issues aside, it is not unprofessional to speak the truth. It is in fact professional. Speaking the scientific truth to the mob exemplifies the ideals of the profession. It's what our leading public health officials should have done during the pandemic but failed to do.
And unfortunately, smears were made that go beyond the medical school years. Now we have to talk about what really happened there too. It could have all stayed in the institution. Now it is going to have to come out. All people had to do was do the right thing, and none of this would have happened.
And now Texas Tech wants to bury this. They want to block me along every single step of the process and continue doing the wrong thing. Because they made a series of terrible mistakes out of institutional inertia, laziness, and incompetence, and now they are terrified of admitting it, and so they want to continue making more mistakes. It's honestly simply insane. But I will keep going until the task is done. What else am I supposed to do? It is outrageous and incomprehensible.
2026-03-05 — 26¶
Progress on lawsuit vs Texas Tech
"Smith has a full litigation division behind him and filed a brief that cites exhibit pages that don't exist. You did this from an apartment in Lubbock. ... Hendrix will note who was honest about their process and who filed phantom citations." https://t.co/y53L5DYM2p
2026-03-12 — 129¶
Hey administrators at Texas Tech's medical school,
What's going to happen when the people who know you know what you did?
When your students know?
What will run through their heads?
I told you not to do it. You did it. You are still doing it. And everyone will know.
2026-03-13 — 1.1K¶
TX Assistant Attorney General Scott Smith is now refusing to permit me to review my educational records.
FERPA is federal law. Withholding my records is illegal.
Texas Tech has had five months to provide me adequate time to review my educational records. The deadline is 45 days. By law.
They waited until day 45 to begin scheduling a review--a one-hour review of 1600 documents.
It has now been over 150 days since my initial request and still I have not been granted adequate time to review the records, which are longer than War and Peace.
Look, these records are PDFs. They could be sent tomorrow.
Why doesn't Texas Tech just send them?
I have therefore filed another supplement to my complaint with the Department of Education.
I will be sending regulatory complaints to other federal agencies today.
Oh and in other news, months ago, Texas Tech requested a deposit of nearly $2,000 for a public records request.
I gladly accepted and submitted a check. I was happy to receive my records!
They cashed the check. And didn't release the records.
I have therefore sent a demand letter to Texas Tech and will be filing a third lawsuit within ten business days if they do not release the records. This is a violation of Texas law.
That's a lot of legal risk to keep some educational records under wraps from a medical student who suddenly started getting hammered by "professionalism" complaints after writing the truth about the abuse of power by the medical community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It sure is a great deal of trouble.
Hmm wonder what's in the records?
2026-03-18 — 306¶
Texas Tech is arguing to the Texas Attorney General that my educational records cannot be released because doing so poses a threat to national security.
They are citing the Texas Homeland Security Act -- a post-9/11 statute designed to prevent terrorists from obtaining blueprints of power grids and water treatment plants.
They are applying it to a student who earned his PhD and was dismissed during his third year of medical school.
I am attaching the pages from their legal brief to the Attorney General. Read it yourself. Texas Government Code § 418.177 -- "preventing or detecting an act of terrorism or related criminal activity."
They are arguing that releasing my student records may enable terrorist attacks.
But it gets better.
The Texas Attorney General is also defending Texas Tech in the federal lawsuit I filed. The Assistant Attorney General cited my tweet as a "perceived threat to the TTUHSC community" in his Motion to Dismiss. Here is how he quoted it:
"Each and every one of us is going to be dead someday very, very soon. [...] These other people, too, are going to be dead very, very soon."
Why did the Assistant Attorney General truncate a tweet?
Here is what the "[...]" omits:
"Why most people put so much stock into what other people think about them is completely beyond me."
The full tweet is an unmistakable memento mori reflection about not caring what others think. The truncation removes the only sentence that makes that clear -- and turns it into something that sounds like a threat.
The AAG knows what the tweet means. He showed it by how he cut it. He truncated a tweet.
@KenPaxtonTX -- your office is defending Texas Tech in court while simultaneously reviewing whether Texas Tech can use anti-terrorism statutes to withhold my own student records from me. Is this your agency?
@GregAbbott_TX -- this is your university.
2026-03-19 — 8¶
The Homeland Security Act argument is in TTUS's brief filed February 18, 2026, under AG Tracking ID OR26006972 (Request ID 66380792). It is Section C, pages 10-12. TTUS invoked Texas Government Code §418.177 to withhold my emergency removal/interim suspension documentation -- the formal records used to justify removing me from campus as a safety threat. The ORD has the brief and the unredacted records. I am the requestor. Request date January 28, 2026.
Why does Texas Tech want to withhold the records about how they justified my removal from campus as a "safety threat"?
2026-03-19 — 113¶
The key thing to understand about my case against Texas Tech: obstruction is the fingerprint.
If Texas Tech dismissed me on legitimate grounds, releasing the records should be no problem. Instead, they are fighting to hide everything.
Why?
Because of what the records show.
A student complained about my tweets. The next day, the Dean of the Medical School wrote this email to senior administrators.
"At our meeting can we discuss Kevin Bass and review our guidelines on professionalism... also what clerkship he is on."
Four days later, Dean Berk was dead. Eight days later, professionalism complaints appeared at the exact clerkship he asked about.
Curious.
And that was just the beginning.
This is what they are hiding. And this is why the Assistant Attorney General just revoked my right to view my own educational records under federal law.
"TTUHSC will not schedule additional FERPA inspection sessions outside the litigation process at this time."
He ordered me not to contact the university directly. The AAG installed himself as gatekeeper between me and my own records.
For months, the only way they let me see my own records was to sit in a room under escort, on a university-controlled laptop, with no copies allowed -- handwritten notes only. Over 1,600 documents and a 14-hour hearing recording. They initially offered me one hour.
Then the AAG filed my unredacted medical records on the public federal court docket for anyone to see.
Read that again. They prohibited me from copying my own records during supervised inspections. Then they published the most sensitive of those same records on the public internet without my consent. I had to file an emergency motion to seal my own medical information that they put there.
The institution that won't let me copy my own records has made them permanently available to the world.
Now they won't even allow the supervised inspections. FERPA revoked. TPIA blocked behind the Homeland Security Act. Discovery foreclosed if they succeed in dismissing the case.
I filed my state lawsuit because they refused to annotate my transcript as required by their own Student Handbook. Now the AAG says they won't process the annotation because there's a lawsuit. They created the lawsuit by refusing, then cite the lawsuit as the reason to keep refusing.
Every lane of access is being shut down. That is not what an institution does when it has nothing to hide.
@KenPaxtonTX @GregAbbott_TX -- this is your institution
2026-03-19 — 23¶
The email sent last week by the AAG to gatekeep my access to my student records.
These records are in PDFs. They could be sent over email. Instead I have been forced to visit campus and take notes by hand.
Now all access has been cut off.
Why won't Texas Tech just send me the records? These are emails and other records about me.
If my dismissal was legitimate, then Texas Tech would have nothing to worry about.
2026-03-21 — 1¶
I was kicked out of medical school ostensibly for "professionalism" issues. But I knew this wasn't true. For months, I fought for access to my educational records.
Two months ago, I finally got a glimpse.
Then, last week, under the order of an attorney from @KenPaxtonTX's https://t.co/aGgwESb5ry
2026-03-21 — 92¶
How the Office of the Texas Attorney General @KenPaxtonTX is violating federal law.
I was kicked out of medical school ostensibly for "professionalism" issues. But I knew this wasn't true. For months, I fought for access to my educational records.
Two months ago, I finally got a glimpse.
Then, last week, under the order of an attorney from the TX AG's office, my access was blocked again -- a violation of federal law.
The Office of the Attorney General under Ken Paxton is helping Texas Tech to violate federal law.
Given how terrible the record is, it's not hard to understand why Texas Tech -- and now the Texas Attorney General -- wants to cover it up and make it go away.
This is what my "professionalism coach" at Texas Tech med school wrote.
Cheryl Erwin, Director of the Center for Ethics, Humanities & Spirituality.
Her notes:
> She compared my case to the Trump indictment.
> She suggested that questioning the unscientific COVID pandemic response -- lockdowns, mask mandates -- was like Trump questioning the 2020 election.
> She said that I "imbibed the cultural atmosphere of conspiracy theories."
> She characterized my position on the pandemic response as believing in a "conspiracy."
> She wrote that my exercising my First Amendment rights was me "making an idiot of himself."
> When I insisted I shouldn't be punished for speaking freely about how the medical profession abused its power, she called me "combative."
To my face, she told me none of these things. She signed off her emails, "Your friend." She promised confidentiality. And just weeks before she gave devastating testimony against me in a rigged hearing, she told me: "I will not abandon you."
She never once talked about what I wrote about on social media to my face. But it's almost all she could write about behind my back.
This is just one part of what's in my records. I got access in January after months of delays. First, one hour to review 2,000 records. Then, after I filed a complaint with the Department of Education, I was able to review them, escorted into a building, university-controlled laptop.
No copies. Even though all records were electronic.
I found things like the above. And so much more.
I filed an amended complaint in federal court using what I'd found in Texas Tech's own records.
Their response?
@KenPaxtonTX's litigation counsel sent me a letter telling me to stop contacting the university requesting FERPA access, that TTUHSC would provide no further access, and that my pending transcript amendment request would be paused indefinitely "until the litigation is resolved."
They said that I have seen the records enough. 1600 documents. Longer than Tolstoy's War and Peace.
They could just send the PDFs. Instead they insist on breaking the law.
They didn't cut off access because I was abusing it. They cut off access because their own records contain their own admissions -- and they would rather shut down a federal statutory right than let me keep viewing.
And here's the thing: what I have seen is only the tip of the iceberg. They have withheld many records. If this is what I have seen, what are they hiding?
I have filed a complaint, and now 5 supplements, with the Department of Education's Student Privacy Policy Office.
I will never, ever quit. Not this year. Not next. Not in 5. Not in 10. Not in 20 years. Not ever.
There will be justice.
@KenPaxtonTX -- Your office is breaking federal law; it is defending an agency that violated the United States constitution; you can withdraw your support any time if that agency's interests diverge with those of the state of Texas; that time is now.
@GregAbbott_TX -- Your university is punishing students for their speech for holding positions you agree with.
@CreightonForTX -- You are the new Texas Tech Chancellor. You are the "conservative". Prove it.
@EDSecMcMahon -- There is no litigation exception to FERPA. I was given 40 hours to review 1,600 documents. Now Texas Tech refuses any further access -- in writing. Your department has my complaint and 5 supplements. Enforce the law.
@EDUnderSecKent -- Texas Tech is breaking federal law, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(1)(A), 34 C.F.R. § 99.10(b), § 99.32. My complaint has been submitted months ago with supplements. When will the Department of Education do its job?
@TexasTech -- The truth will come out. And everyone will know.
Tomorrow.
The first of the secret recordings, published here. A senior Texas Tech official admitted to me that they didn't believe what they wrote about me in the official documents.
But that it was written in retaliation to my constitutionally protected speech.
His own words. On audio.
2026-03-21¶
I only once ever spoke about claims about Covid, if I recall. Once ever. To talk about what I really thought, and about whether I was really right. And she interrupted me to talk about something else. It was like 15 seconds.
The only other times I talked about Covid was when I told her, "I'm being kicked out because of what I say online about Covid." Which was almost every meeting.
And if I was wrong about that, then why is she obsessed about my Covid-related speech in her notes?!
2026-03-23 — 991¶
The secret recordings: Texas Tech's senior official admits that they lied about me in the official documentation leading up to my medical school dismissal
For months after I began writing about how wrong the medical and scientific communities had gotten the COVID-19 response, senior Texas Tech administrators had been engaged in a flurry of internal activity about my public speech. They did not debate my views. They only discussed what to do about the attention.
My right to free speech is protected under the United States Constitution. Texas Tech is a taxpayer-funded agency that must guarantee its students First Amendment rights. Its Student Handbook promises to uphold them.
Senior administrators, including deans of multiple schools, held several meetings about what I wrote online. They instructed administrators to compile surveillance dossiers -- screenshots, PDFs of my articles and tweets, negative emails and hearsay. They instructed faculty not to say good things about me. They assigned me a "professionalism coach," Cheryl Erwin, who posed as an impartial advisor but privately wrote that I engaged in "intellectual narcissism" and believed in "conspiracy theories."
In one passage, she compared my case to the Trump indictment and his denial of the 2020 election results. She wrote that I was exercising my First Amendment rights to "make an idiot of himself."
I questioned the wisdom of lockdowns and the effectiveness of masks. This warranted, it appears, my very own Stasi dossier.
I was aware of none of this until I exercised my statutory right to inspect my educational records. After dozens of email exchanges, months of delay, and a federal complaint to the Department of Education, I was finally able to inspect them two months ago.
Dr. Erwin had accused me of believing in conspiracy theories. I did not.
But I should have.
Shortly after the dean of the medical school demanded my signed Honor Code and asked "what rotation is he on," I began receiving evaluations from Texas Tech faculty that were false and misleading. This went on for months. Something on the order of fifty discrete complaints were made against me. Prior to that, the number had been zero.
I filed seven detailed complaints according to the Student Handbook and under the guidance of several administrators. I alleged that my evaluators had fabricated evaluations. I demanded hearings to hold them accountable.
On November 4, 2023, senior administrator Simon Williams signed a document removing me from campus on the pretext of being dangerous. A BOLO was issued telling students, faculty, and employees to call 911 if I was seen. Mass emails warned that I was dangerous.
An incident that continues to be cited to this very day, more than two years later.
On November 5, Dr. Williams invited me to a sandwich shop. He confessed that he knew I was not dangerous. He admitted that Texas Tech faculty and administrators felt threatened by my complaints -- and took it out on me.
In other words, Dr. Williams confessed that he lied in Texas Tech's official documentation and that the campus removal was retaliation for constitutionally protected speech alleging wrongdoing by Texas Tech faculty.
Here are just some of the things he told me:
"This profession expects more of everyone. And if you choose to enter it, by definition you choose to live by those professional rules."
"And you know, free speech is free speech. We've actually had a lot of talks. Our lawyers are doing works with us. Just yesterday when I was at the meeting, they were talking about free speech. I mean I'm 100%. I want you to be able to say whatever the frick you want. And I won't get -- I usually will not get in any way triggered by it. But when you're in a position that's such a trusted position in society -- then your standard has to be a little bit. And that's one of the places this is becoming a problem." [Timestamp: 00:34:48]
"Can I say in my appeal letter that Dr. Williams seems to believe that I'm not [nervous laughter] homicidal?"
"I... I have said that. I don't think you are. I don't think there's -- I've never sensed threat or danger or anything like that." [Timestamp: 00:34:48]
"But it's important for me that I do this. In fact, that's why I moved back from Seattle a day early. Because I needed to be here today. I want you to know that because I never felt [inaudible] bad here. I've always enjoyed my interactions with you. I wish other people could see it that way, but apparently that's [inaudible]." [Timestamp: 00:34:48]
Yet in his letter authorizing my removal just the day before, he wrote:
"You have engaged in behavior that may constitute violation(s) ... specifically, but not limited to ... 'Physical harm or threat of harm to any person.'"
Then an appeal hearing was held.
A Schrodinger's Administrator of sorts, just as soon as Dr. Williams was observed to speak publicly, he immediately asserted that I was indeed dangerous and should be kept off campus, flip-flopping back from the position he communicated privately.
The timeline:
November 4: "Physical harm or threat of harm to any person"
November 5: "I've never sensed threat or danger or anything like that"
November 9: Kevin is dangerous actually
To be clear. Under 18 U.S.C. § 242, it is a federal crime to willfully deprive a person of constitutional rights under color of law.
A federal crime.
And that is exactly what Dr. Williams did.
Dr. Williams's decision to remove me was not impulsive. Nine months earlier, two days after my Newsweek article was published, he wrote in internal emails:
"It is obviously protected speech but also quite concerning in the way he appears to speak for the medical community. We need to discuss an appropriate response." -- February 1, 2023
"I am not surprised that there was backlash. I think it will be best to hear what legal says we should do." -- February 2, 2023
The "appropriate response" took nine months to execute.
It was relentless, and it came from all directions.
This "appropriate response" was precisely the one I filed grievances to confront.
And I was met with calls from the campus police.
I am not the first one Texas Tech has done this to.
How do I know? An administrator told me.
At least one other student had false allegations leveled against him because the administration wanted them gone.
And if they win, I won't be the last they do this to either.
I only discovered these emails because I exercised my right under FERPA to inspect my educational records.
Now Texas Tech's litigation counsel, Assistant Attorney General Scott Smith, has recently blocked all further access to my records -- in writing.
If Texas Tech does not fulfill its FERPA obligations, it could lose all federal funding.
Texas Tech, apparently, is getting very nervous.
Smith also ordered me to stop contacting the Registrar and to route all requests through him.
That's right.
The attorney defending Texas Tech against my lawsuit is now trying to establish gatekeeping control over my education records.
That's illegal.
A federal complaint is pending with the Department of Education and other federal agencies.
@TheFIREorg @glukianoff -- crickets @CivilRights -- you have my complaint @KenPaxtonTX @OAGTexas -- your AAG is doing a terrible job; borderline sanctionable; I don't get it @GovAbbott -- this your university @TexasTech -- Williams was not the top of the decision tree; I know that for a fact @Newsweek -- help me publish my story @ACLUofTexas -- do you know about this? @dojphofficial @HarmeetKDhillon @PamBondi -- theoretically, this is prosecutable under 18 U.S.C. § 242. I'm not a prosecutor, but it does theoretically fulfill the elements. Willful. @CreightonForTX -- you are the chancellor. Do something.
My case is a strange one. It gets stranger everyday. It will get stranger still. Of that I am sure.
Here's something strange: the defending Assistant Attorney General and two colleagues are getting hammered on the docket by a pro se plaintiff.
They seem utterly incapable of following court rules, making coherent arguments, or even properly citing their own exhibits or authorities.
I suspect that they just don't know what to do with my case.
In the next post, I will begin telling that story.
You won't believe it.
Texans, your government is setting your taxpayer money on fire to defend a university that set out not just to destroy a medical student's career, but his personal and professional reputation as well.
Remember. They destroyed me because I was damn good at what I did.
Now I'm an order of magnitude better.
And I don't bluff.
Horror and laughter.
Those come next.
2026-04-02 — 304¶
Announcement: Texas Tech has admitted that it was wrong to expel me, directed evaluators to write false reports, says I exemplify the highest standards of professionalism (especially intellectual courage), and have offered to instate me as President to reform the university
2026-05-09 — 6¶
. @KenPaxtonTX is a fraud
2026-05-11 — 553¶
Another life destroyed by Texas Tech.
Medical student Vaibhav Duggal received a patient complaint.
He was removed from his rotations. No chance to be heard. Career threatened.
He bought a gun. Shot himself.
4.0 student.
Parents suing for $20M.
@KenPaxtonTX defending. https://t.co/y5GFtxZ5TF
2026-05-12 — 2¶
@sherree_r @Grampsknos @KenPaxtonTX @grok tell us about paxton declining to defend texas agencies, whether he has done that more than other ags in the past, what the statutory basis is, and what kinds of disclosures are required for that and what the mechanisms for that are
2026-05-18 — 32¶
I have comprehensively audited all filings submitted by Texas Assistant Attorney General Scott Smith, in @KenPaxtonTX's Office, in defending my state and federal lawsuits against Texas Tech.
Shockingly, in just 6 months, I have discovered 110 errors in Smith's filings, many of them implicating the rules that require candor to the court. Some of these are very serious.
Some are false statements that reappeared in later filings after I had already corrected them, others misrepresent case law to the court, and yet others involve phantom citations, or citations to a statutory provision that does not exist.
In a filing in the federal case, Assistant Attorney General Scott Smith accused me of using AI to assist in drafting my filings.
In virtually every filing, I have disclosed AI assistance. Today, my citations must pass multiple verification gates, and I am pleased to say that my AI system with its advanced database tooling does case law work that is beginning to approach the level of a competent junior research associate.
On the other hand, for some of the errors made by Scott Smith, such as the phantom citation in the most recent federal filing, AI use is the most generous explanation.
Yet AAG Smith has not disclosed any AI use, foreclosing that most generous explanation.
I have documented these errors in my GitHub repo below, linked below.
2026-05-18 — 22¶
You are helping Texas Tech continue to ruin my life after they put together a surveillance dossier on me to get me kicked out of medical school after I criticized the pandemic response.
Your office approved a $30,000 sham hearing that changed the hearing format at the last minute, blocked all of my witnesses, and redacted and suppressed evidence that went against its story.
I never had the chance to respond to the literally dozens of allegations that were piled onto me. And neither did any of my witnesses.
That sham hearing was run by the lawyer who your office has approved millions of dollars in payments to design the sham hearing system across the Texas public university system during peak woke.
Anyone who was railroaded by a fake disciplinary process and whose life was destroyed at a Texas public university during that period has you to thank for it.
In my state lawsuit, your dirty lawyers are fighting tooth and nail for what?
To help ensure that Texas Tech does not have to follow Texas law and allow me to annotate my record to reflect my side of the story so that I can move on with my life.
And you still conceal your assets from public disclosure, because you don't want people to see how much money you have made as a public servant or where it is coming from.
You are a hypocrite and a fraud. You are a RINO wearing a MAGA mask. You pick optics-friendly battles in public while secretly doing the exact opposite in private.
Nah, I'm telling people not to vote for you.
2026-05-18 — 29¶
I have two lawsuits against Texas Tech medical school: state and federal.
I haven't discussed my state lawsuit yet.
@KenPaxtonTX's office is defending it.
Tell me if by the end you think he is really a conservative or really gives a shit about Texans.
For my state lawsuit, all I'm asking for is for Texas Tech to follow the law.
Texas law says that students and former students are allowed to inspect their educational records, amend them if they are incorrect, and annotate them if they disagree with them.
Lawmakers know that sometimes institutions are wrong.
So this is one remedy for that. It is a right that every Texan student has.
Texas Tech's own handbook has a well-spelled-out procedure for doing this.
I have invoked that procedure.
And Texas Tech is refusing to follow it.
Yes, it is refusing to follow its own procedure, which it is required to do by law.
Not only is it stonewalling, but whenever I make a follow-up request, now about once month, the attorneys from @KenPaxtonTX's office threaten me.
Why would Texas Tech behave this way?
Why wouldn't they just allow me to correct anything that is wrong, or, if they don't agree that it is wrong, to add my own account?
Same reason that they have for the past three years:
They are punishing me.
No other explanation makes sense to me. What decent person wouldn't say -- even if they disagree with me:
"You know, it's his life and his future and his side of the story. We have our side of the story, but we should let him tell his so that he can move on with his life."
Who tries to control the process to prevent that?
Here's who:
The same people who panicked in internal administrative channels when I published a Newsweek article and went on Tucker Carlson criticizing the pandemic response and asked "what rotation is he on?"
The same people who then put together an surveillance dossier on me in my internal file, containing my tweets, articles, and gossip about me, and started having administrators and faculty write written reports on random interactions they had with me.
The same people who called the police on me and had a BOLO sent out because they didn't like the grievances I had filed against faculty and administrators had written pretextual conduct complaints about me.
The same people who signed an emergency removal order saying I was dangerous but then told me a day later that they didn't believe what they had just signed -- which I audio recorded.
The same people who charged me for a semester I never attended, then withdrew that claim when I threatened to report them.
The same people who spent $30K on a Harvard-trained lawyer to sham-trial me -- the same lawyer who designed the entire public university sham trial throughout the state during peak woke and was paid more than a million dollars for it -- taxpayer money approved by @KenPaxtonTX's office.
The same people who blocked all of my witnesses, spent 10 hours railroading me with dozens of allegations, suppressed favorable evidence, and insinuated sexual perversions nearly half a dozen times.
They found the man. They found many, many crimes.
Texas Tech does that kind of thing. They did it to me. And they keep doing it.
And now Ken Paxton's office is defending it in court.
All I'm asking is for the truth. For it to be on the file that is sent out to inquiring parties. For me to be able to move on with my life.
But it gets better:
Paxton's lawyers defending the case speedran through my entire lawsuit without me. Yep.
They went through the entire lawsuit without me.
And now they're battling to prevent a new trial.
The court clerk spelled my email incorrectly in the electronic filing system.
I never received notification of the filings.
Meanwhile, I was in constant contact with Paxton's lawyers over email for the federal trial.
Every single time they submitted a filing to the system, they got a bounce notification from my email.
They knew they could email me at any time.
They knew how important this was to me.
They didn't. Huh.
In my Motion for a New Trial, I wrote that the Texas Supreme Court rulings (e.g. Red Bluff) are crystal clear that for due process to occur, the party must have knowledge.
Of course in their filings, Paxton's AAGs completely avoid discussing this, tip-toeing around Texas legal precedent and citing weaker case law.
I mean, that's typical of them. Typical of Texas Tech too. Typical of the entire process.
Procedure and the law are not something they take seriously. Just something they manipulate to try to get their way.
On May 21, I have a hearing where I will, if the judge allows, make this case.
I should be allowed the opportunity for another trial because I was not notified about what was happening on my own lawsuit.
And that trial will then determine whether Texas Tech can be forced to follow the law and allow me to undergo records inspection, amendment, and annotation.
In conclusion, the process is the punishment.
But I'm used to it.
I can't bear to live in a world where people get away with such evil if I have anything to say about it.
Nor one in which I am maligned and lose my future just because I did the right thing -- because I stood up for the public and for patients when the public health authorities did the wrong thing and destroyed public trust in medicine, which at the time I cared deeply about.
I thought that being a doctor meant doing the right thing. That's why I had wanted to become a doctor. I thought that it was a pure and noble profession.
And that's why I don't anymore. Because being a doctor these days does not mean doing the right thing.
Let's keep grinding on. Doing bullshit.
When all of this is over, we will all have to answer to ourselves, to God, or both.
2026-06-02 — 56¶
A few days ago, I received a letter from the TX Attorney General's Office. Texas Tech has been informed that it is legally required to release all documents that I have seen. This is a victory.
I don't believe that Texas Tech will honor this ruling. I believe that I will have to continue to fight for the documents in court. But this ruling increases my legal leverage.
I am still deliberating about how to release the documents when I receive them. Some detail unhinged allegations against me. Things that are disgusting and bizarre.
It runs the gamut from mundane to unhinged. Everything is in there. Things that happened and were distorted. There is also full-blown psychosis. Disgusting things that a person couldn't even imagine making up.
If you break it down into discrete claims in both internal and disciplinary documents, employees and faculty made dozens if not more than a hundred allegations about me and my character.
But what kept slipping out over and over was the real reason: I said controversial things online about the pandemic response -- that our leading public health officials lied -- that embarrassed the institution, for that, I would pay with my career and my public reputation.
So, I believe that there should be a public documentary record of everything that happened. That's not accountability in the sense that most people think about it, but it keeps the story alive for the public to learn about forever. And I believe that makes a difference. So I want all of the documents out there.
The only thing is: what about when those documents are public? Will they be used against me in the future? Yes. They'll be selectively quoted and screenshotted and linked. I know this will happen. If I become the locus of controversy again, they'll be pulled right out.
But it's better to get the full story out publicly, every detail, than to have to worry about rumors in the shadows for the rest of my life. So I will be putting them on my website. Students, faculty, anyone else thinking about working at or attending the medical school at Texas Tech, journalists, legislators, judges, etc. will be able to see them.
It's still all so strange to me. Baffling. I was told that I would get over what happened. I have in a way. I have healed in the sense that having everything I worked for -- to become a physician -- stolen from me no longer feels like soul death.
But I think I may be angrier and more disappointed than ever. The anger and disappointment does not go away. The more I understand about what happened, the angrier I get.
Success does not help either. I am having the most eventful and exciting period of my life. And that only throws gasoline onto the fire. The more I succeed, the more I am reminded just how vile the behavior of the faculty and administration at the university was.
I was never afforded any opportunity to be heard, to present evidence, to have witnesses testify on my behalf. Texas Tech spent tens of thousands of dollars -- $30,000 on just the day of my dismissal hearing alone -- on the biggest hired guns in Texas to ensure that.
I have senior administrators on recording telling me they couldn't understand why other people had a problem with me. I have them admitting that they didn't agree with the documents they had signed. I have my own exhaustive contemporaneous journaling on what transpired. And soon -- how soon depends on how long the legal battle over documents will last -- I will have internal documents.
The administrators at Texas Tech did not want to deal with things internally, because they wanted me out.
So we'll deal with them in public. That wasn't my call. Whoever made that call, likely starting with Dean Berk, rubberstamped by President Rice-Spearman, and carried about the administration -- it was theirs.
I was forced into this. I will not hide in the shadows. That's not who I am.
I chose the fight. Texas Tech chose the war.
I only want the truth so that I can pursue my calling. Not in science or medicine -- but somewhere else where seeking and speaking the truth is an asset, not something for which I am punished.
2026-06-05 — 31¶
Texas politicians are not as conservative as you think. They say one thing on social media and do the opposite in real life. Ken Paxton is a case in point. He looks great compared to Talarico, yes. But he is a woke goblin. Time will show that Texas is in serious trouble.
2026-06-06 — 14¶
Ken Paxton unleashed woke purges in Texas's public universities to placate woke mobs. All while he pretended to be anti-woke on Twitter to pander to MAGA. I can prove this. I'm not endorsing Talarico. But it's important to understand who you are voting for. Paxton is two-faced.
2026-06-07 — 376¶
I'm doing a healthcare fraud detection startup and have been since March. It is going extremely well.
I can't talk about my cases, because you have to keep things quiet if you want to take the fraudsters to court and get the money back for the government.
However! I have some smaller cases (<$50 million) that I will talk about soon. Hopefully this month or next.
These cases are small enough that they are not worth my time going to court compared to the much larger ones, but they can showcase what I have found.
I will start explaining who is doing the fraud and how, how much there is, and how the fraudsters hide it.
It's not an exaggeration that criminals defrauding the government are doing it on a scale far beyond what most Americans can imagine.
We will start cracking this nut. This and next year.
Some of these fraudsters are sophisticated, and they are fighting back.
We will get them.
2026-06-09 — 52¶
Yes, they are responsible. It's Texas Tech medical school. Abuse of power and incompetence are baked into the administrative culture there. That is why I am suing them and in a legal battle over my educational records. Godspeed to the Duggal family. May Vaibhav rest in peace.
2026-06-19 — 83¶
Goal:
$1 billion in healthcare False Claims Act lawsuits filed by end of Q3.
$10 billion filed by end of Q4.
Next month, I will post about some smaller cases that I am only sending to law enforcement -- but not personally filing in court.
2026-06-21 — 83¶
Legal update.
Texas Tech refuses to follow law and their own policy and allow me to annotate my own record. Paxton's AG office defending in state court. Will probably go to appeal. I will probably lose; courts won't force Texas Tech to follow law because historically Republican judges protect institutions. Even though they are infested with left-wing radicalism, Texas Republican judges remain institutionalists. May take a decade or more to change. Who knows when.
AG office has also told Tech that they have to release records. Tech will almost certainly ignore AG ruling and keep blocking the records, and I will have to sue over the records in court. Good part is that there is strong law on my side. Bad part is that it will probably drag out for years, as it did for Mike Leach and Wayne Dolcefino.
Talked to folks at Paxton's office. They patronized me, don't care about what happened, pretended they can't do anything (not true). Paxton is probably one of the worst people in all of this. He talks big on social media but everything is completely rotten in private. People don't know that his office oversaw and helped the radical left-wing capture of Texas public universities. He also has gotten wealthy with his office and has hidden it from the public. If you're getting rich, of course you'll go along to get along.
Federal lawsuit is OK I guess. Waiting for a ruling. Good judge but who wants to deal with this bag of shit? Nobody. Not even me. Not sure how federal lawsuit will go, but I have studied all previous similar cases, and mine seems to be the most egregious and best-evidenced. But who knows with the courts? The docket is about 6 months and 60 filings in. Maybe it will get longer. Maybe the case will die.
The good part is that this isn't that much work anymore. My startup is at the intersection of AI, law, and healthcare, and I've learned quickly. It's really the moral impact on me that is the worst. You realize that injustice goes on for a long time. Institutions don't care. Nobody does. All that matters is leverage and power. But that's not supposed to be the way things are. That's the opposite of what justice is supposed to work.
Who else has been impacted by something like this? I've talked to many people and heard many horror stories. Texas Tech is a real cesspool. I have heard about some truly horrible things that have apparently happened there and been covered up. Yet most people have a lot less influence than I do. I cannot imagine who else has been dragged and has been silent their whole lives. It makes me furious.
Republican, Democrat, I don't care anymore. I dislike almost all the politicians and bureaucrats. They are so fake. They know what the right thing is, and they don't do it because they are clutching onto tiny amounts of money and the regard of their peers, who are doing the same sleazy things. It's incomprehensible.
All I can do is keep grinding, so that is what I do. If I am lucky and my predictions are correct, there are some ways out. But things bigger than my case must change. Maybe I can change a couple of them. I don't know.
2026-06-23 — 493¶
One investigator combed through all court records for convictions of those involved in UK child grooming rape gangs.
They found that 87% of the names of those convicted were Muslim.
Just 6% of the UK population is Muslim.
Mass immigration to the UK is overwhelmingly Muslim. https://t.co/9Xe7Bi4GoY
2026-06-26 — 31¶
Texas Republicans are the most corrupt politicians in the country
Why do you think it was so easy for Texas unis to go woke? In a red state?
Abbott, Paxton, big words on social media, all making big $ from public office, all doing the opposite of their pandering in secret
2026-07-10 — 50¶
Ken Paxton was probably the single most important person in turning Texas's public institutions woke. He did it willingly, almost every day he worked in government. And he used his conservative card as cover to do it. It sounds crazy. It is 100% true.
2026-08-03 — 24¶
The risk of a recession this year continues plummeting under President Trump, highlighting the success of his economic policy.
That policy is built on four major policy pillars:
- Tax relief;
- Deregulation;
- Expanded domestic energy production;
- Protective tariffs.
Remaining challenges for the current economy for Trump include:
> Elevated deficits and debt
> Persistent affordability pressures
> Labor-market softness and slower potential growth from immigration restrictions
> Ongoing trade/policy uncertainty
> The Federal Reserve’s policy path.
The Federal Reserve's policy path is one of the more interesting problems.
Trump has stated a commitment to reducing inflation, but Fed policy to achieve that would require making borrowing more costly, cooling the economy.